Flicker is definitely one of my favorite songs on the album

Uh, I wanted to combine, like, I don′t know

My favorite album ever is Daft Punk's DiscoveryAnd with that I think came a real love of soul sample type stuff

So I started working with, messing with and flipping soul samples

And I kinda landed on this like

You know, hip-hoppy, hip-hoppy little beat, and

I, you know, I kind of, I felt that it was just incomplete

With just the drums and with the soul sample on the phaser

I don′t think this was ever, yeah

You know, when I first wrote Flicker it wasn't meant to be a world song

But, uhm, I had an MP3 or a WAV file sitting on my desktop

Of, I had used a text-to-speech programs basically

Basically, I took a bunch of song titles and ru-, and translated them in Japanese

You know, not correctly at all, just using an online translation tool

And, uh, then I used a text-to-speech on it

Just made this little robot voice say all these song titles in Japanese

So for songs that were, I would never, song titles that would never be seen

And then I chopped it up into a rap

And that's where you get the 私は little hook from

And, uh, I just thought it was, I thought it was a charming little thing

And then after I had written that, that piece

I, I went into the next section with the lead melody

And-and the different chord progression

You know to me Flicker is one of the songs that has structure

That goes to a lot of different places

And it′s not meant to be a Pop song

It′s more of a little journey, and, uh

Yeah, it's just, I think it′s a charming song

And it's one of the ones I′m proudest of